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How popular is “Brennan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brennan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brennan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brennan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brennan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brennan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brennan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brennan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 -100%
1961 25 0.000006035 25 -100%
1962 24 0.000005947 24 -100%
1963 32 0.000008084 32 -100%
1964 30 0.000007717 30 -100%
1965 36 0.00000993 36 -100%
1966 53 0.000015249 53 -100%
1967 53 0.000015612 53 -100%
1968 58 0.000017168 58 -100%
1969 66 0.000018991 66 -100%
1970 73 0.000020241 73 -100%
1971 78 0.000022725 78 -100%
1972 57 0.000018136 57 -100%
1973 75 0.00002486 6 69 -84%
1974 96 0.000031579 7 89 -85%
1975 113 0.000037425 11 102 -81%
1976 109 0.000035923 10 99 -82%
1977 116 0.000036518 8 108 -86%
1978 139 0.000043795 16 123 -77%
1979 152 0.000045687 16 136 -79%
1980 165 0.000047902 23 142 -72%
1981 153 0.000044228 14 139 -82%
1982 171 0.000048746 19 152 -78%
1983 207 0.000059769 25 182 -76%
1984 260 0.000074525 28 232 -78%
1985 273 0.00007649 20 253 -85%
1986 322 0.000090524 30 292 -81%
1987 456 0.000126469 34 422 -85%
1988 488 0.000132069 28 460 -89%
1989 478 0.000124335 33 445 -86%
1990 647 0.000163695 41 606 -87%
1991 751 0.000192798 53 698 -86%
1992 692 0.000180149 50 642 -86%
1993 720 0.000190967 57 663 -84%
1994 832 0.000223797 76 756 -82%
1995 978 0.000267056 62 916 -87%
1996 955 0.000261845 60 895 -87%
1997 1019 0.000281045 52 967 -90%
1998 1116 0.000303409 65 1051 -88%
1999 1164 0.000315117 58 1106 -90%
2000 1200 0.000317468 42 1158 -93%
2001 1181 0.000315489 60 1121 -90%
2002 1179 0.000315385 58 1121 -90%
2003 1168 0.000307181 41 1127 -93%
2004 1124 0.00029417 63 1061 -89%
2005 1101 0.000286357 47 1054 -91%
2006 1185 0.000299531 69 1116 -88%
2007 1307 0.000326939 100 1207 -85%
2008 1399 0.000355919 83 1316 -88%
2009 1550 0.000405741 86 1464 -89%
2010 1360 0.000367991 81 1279 -88%
2011 1264 0.000345564 87 1177 -86%
2012 1084 0.000296388 73 1011 -87%
2013 993 0.000272378 66 927 -87%
2014 863 0.000232842 57 806 -87%
2015 730 0.000197249 40 690 -89%
2016 584 0.000159185 35 549 -88%
2017 508 0.00014205 44 464 -83%
2018 412 0.000117182 30 382 -85%
2019 372 0.000107176 32 340 -83%
2020 347 0.000103874 32 315 -82%
2021 295 0.000087073 30 265 -80%
2022 250 0.000073896 26 224 -79%
2023 229 0.000069159 16 213 -86%
2024 225 0.000067598 18 207 -84%

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